Prof. Mark Leikin
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Head of Laboratory: The Laboratory for the Study of Bilingualism
The Laboratory for the Study of Bilingualism
Research Interests
Educational Background
Recent publications
The Laboratory for the Study of Bilingualism
Three Research Fields are in Focus at our lab:
- Examination of the Possible Effect of Bilingualism on Different Types of Creativity in non-Mathematical (verbal, Figurative and General) and Mathematical Problem Solving;
- Development of Creativity in Early Childhood in Normal and Abnormal (SLI, ADHD) Populations;
- Hebrew-Arabic Bilingualism and Morphological Development.
Research Interests
- Bilingualism
- Diglossia
- Creativity
- Giftedness
Educational Background
1977 M.A. Excellence in Special Education and Speech Therapy, Faculty of Special Education, Leningrad State Pedagogical Institute (now:
State Pedagogical University of St. Petersburg).
1989 PhD, Faculty of Special Education, State Pedagogical University of St.Petersburg
1992 Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (VATAT), University of Haifa, School of Education
Recent publications
- Shalhoub-Awwad, Y. & Leikin, M. (2016). The Lexical Status of the Root in Processing Morphologically Complex Words in Arabic. Scientific Studies of Reading, 20(4), 296–310.
- Paz-Baruch, N., Leikin, R., & Leikin, M. (2016). Visual Processing in Generally Gifted and Mathematically Excelling Adolescents. Journal for the Education of the Gifted, 39(3) 237–258.
- Leikin, R., Leikin, M., Paz-Baruch, N., Waisman, I. and Lev, M. (2017). On the four types of characteristics of super mathematically gifted students, High Ability Studies, 28(1), 107–125.
- Leikin, R., Waisman, I., Leikin, M. (2016). Are solving insight-based and solving learning-based problems differ? Some evidence from an ERP study. ZDM – The International Journal on Mathematics Education, 48, 305–319.
- Asli, A. & Leikin, M. (2018). Morphological ability among monolingual and bilingual speakers in early childhood in two Semitic languages: Arabic and Hebrew. International Journal of Bilingualism, 1367006918781079.
- Leikin, M. & TovLi E. (2018). Examination of Creative Abilities of Preschool Children with and without Specific Language Impairment (SLI). Communication Disorders Quarterly, 1525740118810848.
- Hetzroni, O., #Agada, H., Leikin, M. (2019). Creativity in Autism: An examination of general and mathematical creative thinking among children with autism spectrum disorder and children with typical development. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 1-12.